Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
GOOD. This community could use a little more pressure.
Not sure about you but I consider it quite impolite to join group content and perform below the threshold that is needed in order to down the content (first timers excluded of course).
I dont want this game to be WoW 2.0, no thank you.

Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
Bollocks. No one ever takes the time to socialize DURING A FIGHT. No one. Parsers do not care about what happens in between fights, you can have hours of discussions and it wouldn't record a thing. WoWs "gogogo" mentality was just as prevalent back in TBC in the year of 2007 when I started the game as it is now (though it was frowned upon). Most people simply hate to stand around and wait if it isn't necessary for tactical purposes.
I had a ton of situations where my team were casualy joking in chat, especially in 24 man raids.
You could get kicked in wow for typing anything, its madness and its BAD.

Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
These days, the design on M+ encourages races against the clock (a design choice I disagree with b/c I hate races against time), so naturally that spills over into non timed content once people get used to running things that way. Yes, I can see that this would make it harder for newbies to get in but that is not the fault of the parsing addons. We had these back in Vanilla and we WILL have them in classic WoW. They have no impact whatsoever on peoples willingness to socialize. Oo
Its not full fault of parsers, but it does contribute into the WoW atmosphere being so hasty and pressuring.
FFXIV is not made for hardcore numberphiles, its a casual game where you could play 1-2 hours a day, this is what the lead game designer wants this game to be played like.
You will just have to deal with it if you dont like people performing badly, ToS in this game is really brutal when it comes to these things. You would have to change the mindset of Japanese employees at SE in order to change things as you like.
But we already have WoW, why do we need a second game like that?